Shell accounts are like short wave radios, wrist watches, cameras and landline telephones. Not many people have them anymore but they are oh so useful.
This is not true. There are several recovery options offered by NearlyFreeSpeech. They are defined in great detail on their website. They offer two factor (TOTP) as well:
"Our membership recovery procedure comes into play when you lose your password and access to your email at the same time, or if you have 2-factor authentication configured and lose the second factor. To regain access, you will need to contact us and perform a certain number of verification actions."
Possible verification actions:
* You provide a scanned copy of a government-issued photo ID.
* You provide a scanned copy of a statement showing both the most recent deposit and a name and address matching one of your accounts.
* You complete SMS verification. (SMS must be previously configured.)
* You complete 2-factor verification. (2-factor auth must be previously configured.)
* You correctly answer your security question. (Security question and answer must be previously configured, below.)
* You use an ssh key to create a file with a specific name on one of your sites hosted here. (Must be previously configured, won’t work if account is empty.)
* We try and fail to contact you via your currently configured email address. (This one may take a long time.)
Recovery Thresholds:
* Scorched Earth. If you lose access to your membership, you won’t be able to recover it. But neither will anyone else. (This is not a joke. If you set this option and lose access to your membership, it and everything on it will be inaccessible until it expires.)
* All possible actions. Excessive security. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
* Five actions. Very high security. Regaining access will be a huge pain for you, and rounds-to-impossible for anyone else.
* Four actions. High security. Provides enhanced protection but if you need to recover access to your membership, it’s probably going to be pretty inconvenient.
* Three actions. Default security. Provides good protection without making membership recovery too miserable.
* Two actions. Reduced security. We really don’t recommend this, but if you’re really forgetful and really sure nobody would ever target your membership, this option exists.
* One action. No security. All it takes is an email bounce and your membership goes to the first person to ask for it. (This is a joke. Don’t pick this.)
Confirmation:
* I understand the recovery setting I'm picking, and I am solely responsible for the consequences.
UVB-76 is a number station transmitting one-time pad encrypted messages. Old transport technology (radio) sending old, unbreakable crypto technology (one-time pad encrypted messages) at the speed of light all across the world. These technologies (as old as they are) will never be replaced with new infrastructure dependent technologies. The key is that they allow for decentralized, secure comms at the speed of light. No satellites or fiber required. It only takes a handful of guys to do it too. You can even run them from solar panels and battery packs from caves in Timbukto. Take that, nation state controlled Internet.
The Great FireWall of X, does not stop radio. Try to jam omni-directional NVIS. Better yet, try to locate the guys receiving it.
The edge of modern Western society (those not part of the main rat race) is a place where you can truly be free and happy, but you'll be seen as fringe.
Never go into debt. Eat beans and rice. Work summer jobs as a river boat guide. Write poems. Watch the stars. Help others find peace.
Just be true to yourself and don't let modern society set expectations or guide your life.
Ebola is a Level 4 Biohazard. Try getting into or out of a CDC certified Level 4 facility. All of this is documented and easily understood. It's highly contagious, there is no cure and and there is no telling how long the outbreak will last: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard#Classificatio...
"The only correct view is the absence of all views." - thich nhat hanh
We are unhappy when we assign reasons to people's actions or words. When we think that others say or do things because they are "out to get me". That is a view and that is an incorrect view that will lead to all sorts of unhappiness and discontent in your life. Get rid of all of your views. Some things just happen. There is no grand plan.
"Do you want to be right, or happy?" - thich nhat hanh
Don't correct people or argue with them. It leads to unhappiness. Especially don't do this in front of others. It will only cause confrontation that hurts you just as much as the people you are correcting. Even if you are being wrongly accused, just be silent. There will be a better time later to correct the situation and set the record straight. This is much needed in corporations in America that have contentious meetings. People interrupt each other, openly demean and correct each other. Sit silently in these meetings and stay above it all. Everyone will notice and you'll be much happier and content.
There is much more we can learn from Eastern philosophy. When things cause stress and unhappiness in your life, examine them, be mindful of your words and deeds toward others, live only in the present and you'll forever be happy.
Things are not inferior or superior, they are only different. If you can open your mind and understand this, then you will realize vi and Emacs for what they are.
“The sad thing about guys who exhibit these brogrammer qualities is they seem to fall short of greatness in both worlds,” said Parish. “They’re not purely macho or purely geeky, they’re somewhat pretenders in both...”
Part of the problem is that women like this want a man who looks like Tarzan, is rich, respected and powerful but who can also change the oil in the car, fix the plumbing, mow the lawn, fight Brock Lesnar for her honor (and win) and make her laugh on command.
I tell my wife that she should have married a dozen guys. Yeah, I do so much stuff that I don't do anything really well. Thanks for noticing and calling me a pretender. I'm just an average guy like all the rest.
Edit: Happily married for 15 years. My wife and I joke about this. She understands and has settled for me ;)
So should someone find a remote exploit in OpenWhatever that gives them remote root access and they publicly disclose that (without having tested it on the Internet... just in their lab) then they are not subject to the CFAA?
FreeOTFE (which was developed by a woman named Sarah Dean... who by the way also had a large TrueCrypt archive) is no longer developed. She stopped responding to email about a year ago and her domains went away too.
Many on HN may not realize, but there are miniature NSA groups in most every organization in the USA. Universities, non-profits, small corporations, local governments, etc. If they have an IT Security group, then they are likely spying on IP connections.
They use Bro, Snort, Suricata, Argus and other tools to record metadata about every IP connection that comes into or leaves their networks. Some of them terminate SSL connections and forge certificates. A few of them even drop encrypted protocols that they are not able to decrypt and inspect.
They use taps and/or SPAN ports to do the spying.
Most of them try to keep this activity quiet. This mentality is pervasive and it is everywhere (especially in USA based organizations). Everyone should be aware.
No one is safe from this spying, even senior management and tenured faculty connections are being inspected and recorded for later use if needed. They just don't know it.
That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.